Morvant Caledonia United and St. Ann’s Rangers sealed the final quarterfinal round match-ups of the 2016 Lucozade Sport Goal Shield after progressing from the qualifying round with wins over Point Fortin Civic and Club Sando, respectively, on Tuesday night Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva.

Former Trinidad and Tobago Youth World Cup defender Robert Primus scored one and set up another in Qualifier One to help former champions Caledonia to a 3-1 win over Civic to advance into quarterfinals Day Two on Saturday April 9 from 4pm at the Hasely Crawford Stadium where they will meet Defence Force, the side the “Eastern Stallions” defeated 3-1 in the final of the 2012 Lucozade Sport Goal Shield.

In Qualifier Two, Johan Peltier scored four minutes from the end to give Rangers a 1-0 win over Sando and set up a clash against his former side and defending Lucozade Sport Goal Shield champions Central FC on quarterfinals Day One on Friday April 8 from 6pm.

Peltier was in imperious mood, especially in the second half, and it wasn’t by surprise that the 24-year-old attacker found the back of the net to give Rangers the deserving winner by heading past Sando’s Grenada national team goalkeeper Jason Belfon from a Kevon Cornwall corner. Four minutes earlier Peltier was denied by the upright after lunging in to direct a Sedale Mc Lean cross towards goal.

The Angus Eve-coached Rangers had dominated the game, although Sando had evenly matched an exciting first half hour before injury, perhaps as a result of the speed of their opponents, to defender Amrit Gildharry and midfielder Jack Weedon forced Sando coach Anthony Streete into premature substitutions before the break.

Sando were lucky not to concede on 14 minutes when a dangerous cross from Kadeem Hutchinson was sliced onto the crossbar by a defender. And goalkeeper Belfon was later forced into saves by Hutchinson and Peltier but goalless it stood at the half.

Rangers later thought they had won a penalty on 68 minutes when Peltier went crashing into the ground at the edge of the six-yard area following a challenge from defender Corneal Thomas to thwart attacker. But referee Kevin Smart instead awarded Peltier a yellow card for diving to the relief of Sando.

Two minutes earlier Sando forward Devon Modeste had struck the base of goalkeeper Christopher Biggette’s upright with an overhead attempt after controlling an Akeem Humphrey pass off his chest for his side’s closest attempt to a goal.

Caledonia had an excellent opportunity to double the advantage a minute before the hour mark but Marcus Ambrose was robbed of the ball at his feet by a fully stretched goalkeeper Akini Adams who recovered after being rounded by the opponent.

Adams, who had made three first half saves, including one with his left leg to deny Jameel Neptune in the 38th minute, was left beaten when Primus – occupying the role of centre forward in recent times – headed in from close range in the 41st minute after a Joseph free-kick from the left was headed on by Leslie Russell.

Civic did have their chances, one of which Nickcolson Thomas rattled the Caledonia crossbar in the 64th minute from a free-kick just outside the area. But when he was tasked with a kick from the penalty spot in the 71st minute after Kelvin Modeste was brought down inside the box, Thomas was denied by his former Civic teammate and T&T goalkeeper Marvin Phillip who dived low to his left to gather the ball.

Seconds later and Caledonia were celebrating their second goal from the counter attack. Primus took full advantage when an attempted headed clearance by the Civic defence fell to his feet and squared a pass to find Joseph free at the centre of the area and the Caledonia captain fired past Adams for a 2-0 lead.

Civic’s Kelvin Modeste reduced the deficit on 72 minutes after heading past Phillip but Jameel Neptune restored Caledonia’s two-goal lead in the 78th minute for a 3-1 finish.

Neptune, at the end of a flowing move involving Pernell Schultz and Kareem Joseph, calculated himself before hitting past a hapless goalkeeper Adams who had, moments earlier, matched a powerful strike from Joseph to put it overbar.